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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell neglected the idea that Future Pro Football Hall of Famer Tom Brady’s double role as minority owner of Las Vegas Raiders and Fox Sports’ Top NFL analyst creates a serious conflict of interest.
Brady is in the middle of his second season as Fox’s main analyst. Brady’s TV job allows him to have special access to players and coaches – a perk, like others who have minority sticks in teams do not have. Over the past year and a half, Brady’s access has given rise to concern for a conflict of interest.
During week 2’s matchup between Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers, Brady was seen wearing a headset inside the Raiders’ stand.
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Former NFL player Tom Brady on the field before the game between Dallas Cowboys and Las Vegas Raiders at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on August 26, 2023. (Tim Heitman/IMAGN- Pictures)
In a statement, NFL clarified that Brady’s actions did not violate the league rules. Brady is “forbidden to go to a team facility for practice or production meetings,” NFL said. However, the former New England Patriots Quarterback has permission to be present in Coaches’ booth, per. League.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell treated additional rumblings about Brady’s access during a recent conversation with CNBC. “Team has the right to say what they want. They don’t have to pass on any information if they think it’s a conflict of interest,” Goodell said.
Tom Brady calls critics of his roles as both Raiders owner, Fox Broadcaster ‘Paranoid and Mislust’
Goodell also noted that teams are not obliged to reveal information and often hold back in meetings with former players-facing-broadcasts, considering the close ties they can still have with their previous teams.
“Hold doesn’t have to say anything. Sometimes they don’t say anything to someone who isn’t [a minority owner]. We get a lot of former players who are in [broadcast meetings] There are close to their previous teams. I think our team is pretty smart to say, ‘I don’t share anything with him.’ “
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell (L) presents New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady (R) with Pete Rozelle Trophy as the Super Bowl Li most valuable player at George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, February 6, 2017. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports)
Goodell added that there are protocols that protect Brady from being interested in everything that could give the Raiders an unreasonable edge.
“Where is the conflict?” Goodell said. “He doesn’t hang around the facilities. We don’t allow that.”
During Brady’s debut season in the Broadcast Stand, he was excluded from attending the production meetings, which included a given playing TV crew and the main coaches and some players from both sides of Matchup. The league decided to loosen some of these restrictions for the 2025 season. He is now allowed to attend these meetings, albeit from a remote setting.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell looks at a press conference of Caesar’s Superdome on February 3, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana, in front of the NFL Super Bowl Lix football match between Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)
On Wednesday, the seven-time Super Bowl winner pushed back against discussions questioning whether his role as Raiders investor and his responsibility in the broadcast booth could exist together.
Brady effectively characterized anyone who has serious concerns that he was interested in a competitive advantage such as “paranoid and distrustful.”
I love football. In its core it is a principle of principle. And with all the success it has given me, I feel that I have a moral and ethical duty to the sport; Which is why the point where my roles in it cross each other is not a point of conflict, despite the paranoid and distrust of believing. “That’s what it is for the place, it is the place where my ethical duty comes: to grow, evolve and improve the game that has given me,” Brad, “written in a connection with a connection with a connection with a connection with a connection to a connection his newsletter entitled” Do your job. ”
Brady, along with Lead Fox NFL voice Kevin Burkhardt, is scheduled to be on the call on Sunday when the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles visits Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
